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The Curators are the greatest consumers of content AND the greatest contributors—including sharing.
That makes Curators a hub and the easiest users for marketers to reach.
Curators, like me, are actively looking for information to share with others, and actively spreading the word. Content Curators are the best online friend a marketer could have!
This means there are significant changes ahead in the social media information ecosystems....
The debate over the rules of content creation and curation continues to rage. We spoke to some experts for their opinion on the issues surrounding copyright and monetization.
Content aggregation (the automated gathering of links) can be seen on sites like Google News. Overall, this type of aggregation has been seen as a positive thing for content creators and publishers, and up until very recently, it was left to technology. Content creation, meanwhile, was a human effort.
But all that changes with curation — the act of human editors adding their work to the machines that gather, organize and filter content.
By Mashable May 3, 2010
In the eight-plus years I’ve worked with Jim Romenesko, I’ve spent some time talking with him, more time emailing with him, and — most of all — I’ve admired and observed how he does what he does. But last week, for the first time, I experienced it firsthand when Jim took some well-deserved and unprecedented time off.
In the process I learned three things about content curation:
- The balance between the obligatory and the original is critical.
- What you exclude is as important as what you include.
- Speed kills, but slowness is a painful death of its own.
Storination is launching soon and I am on board.
Storination is a new social curation and story-blogging platform based on the Storify technology.
Express yourself, follow topics, curate and add 'rich stories' using social media streams. - April 26, 2011
Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue.
The 5 models of content curation:
1. Aggregation
2. Distillation
3. Elevation
4. Mashup
5. Chronology
I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding. Curation is no exception.
The truth is that for several years there were two kinds of people in social media, those who create content and those who consume it.
Historically, creators were among the digital elite, the so-called digerati, as only a small percentage was actively dedicated to creating. But there’s a world wide web out there and everyday people consuming social content dramatically outnumber the digerati.
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A Web start-up named Storify, which opens to the public Monday, April 25, 2011, aims to help journalists and others collect and filter all this information.
Storify aims to help journalists and others sift through the explosion of online content and publish the most relevant information.
Using the Storify Web site, people can find and piece together publicly available content from Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and other sites. They can also add text and embed the resulting collages of content on their own sites
The explosion of information has created a need to group data in meaningful ways. Curation encourages users to form niche communities around their passions by sharing content that centers on their core specialty.
Rosenbaum says: "The new media moguls won't be makers; they'll be finders, endorsers and presenters."
Most online content today is stuck. It has roots firmly planted in one of the many sites and applications around the web. Because content is rooted, we are forced to spend precious time recording its location in the hopes of navigating back. We bookmark websites. We favorite tweets. We create lists in text files.
In this system, the sites are the gravitational center and we, the users, orbit them, reaching out for a connection whenever we want to interact with the content. This is a fine system, but as users spend more time on consumption-oriented devices like iPads and mobile phones, new demands are being put on content.
Are you overlooking some of the most powerful influencers on the social web? Let’s find out.
Traditionally, there has been a 1-9-90 rule when it come to creating and consuming content:
There’s a new element in this equation, though: Content Curators — people who make a practice of finding content relevant to their friends and followers, and then sharing links to that content. I am making a distinction between a curator and an aggregator who pulls content from around the web, usually related to a specific topic, to display on websites generally to enhance search engine optimization.
How do you create social media strategies for your business? Do you jump into the newest platform or create campaigns simply to increase Facebook ‘Likes’? Here’s a suggestion: quit throwing darts and start using social media research to drive your strategy.
To illustrate this concept, I’m going to use a fictitious brand along with real social media research.
Content Curation involves setting your content free, targeting the right market segments, organizing your content and be discerning with who you are sharing it with.
Ten Steps to Content Curation:
1) Get a grasp of your market focus.
2) Understand what topics are important to and will resonate with your target market.
3) Who are the thought leaders, influencers, bloggers, editors/reporters/digerati.
4) What content platform will reach your target market.
5) Timing of content publishing and curating is essential.
6) Create good content and the market will follow.
7) Be original – pick your band or rock star encompassing Bruce Springsteen to Lady Gaga.
8) Organize your content.
9) Be discerning when sharing content.
10) Set your content free!
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Find a good filter, or else.
The great thing about the title of Clay Shirky’s new book -- "Here Comes Everybody" -- is that it can sound totally different, depending on who’s reading it.
The world was formerly broken up into passive consumers and powerful distributors, but now it’s being blown apart by the web.
Earth Knowledge takes curation to a new level. Earth Knowledge is an example of nearly pure curation. The site operators don’t create any original content. They provide value in the creative ways in which they organize and visualize content created by others. http://www.earthknowledge.net
We've been inputting data into the social graph for years now.
Personalized news curation may be the latest happy output, but it's been a long time coming.
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The explosion of real-time information through social networks like Twitter and Facebook has created an opportunity for "curation" tools such as Storify, which just launched as a public beta.
Tools like Storify allow anyone to perform the same kind of function, regardless of whether they have been trained as a journalist — or even think of what they are doing as journalism.
Twitter-focused curation tool, which lets you gather and share collections of tweets around a specific topic. Popular news items, events, or trends may see thousands of related tweets, retweets and spam posts in a matter of hours: Chirpstory offers a way to curate and “summarize” related tweets in the form of a continuous or thematic narrative. Launched on TechCrunch, Dec 22, 2010 http://is.gd/wl3iX5
notify.me delivers notifications that interest you in real time. It eliminates the need for you to constantly check on classified listings, blogs or social networking sites.
Notifications are delivered to your destinations of choice such as instant messenger, mobile phone, email, desktop or web application.
Time to talk about social business planning again.
If your company wants to learn to fly and integrate a social "layer" into everything you do here are a few thoughts as you plot your own roadmap:
1 - Crawling: People, Process, Procedure.
2 - Walking: Managing Your Properties.
3 - Running: Ecosystem Engagement At Scale.
4 - Flying: Social Innovation & Organizational Integration.
In an infographic that's bound to cause arguments and perhaps fistfights, researchers at Hunch placed data from 700,000 of its website visitors onto a deep and revealing illustration that shows just how different users of Macs and PCs are.
They came up with interesting correlations between users’ chosen computing platforms and their demographics and personalities, as well as tastes in food, fashion and media.
Curation, curator et curateur sont les buzzword de ce début d'année. Est ce justifié ?
J’ai l’impression qu’après le web 2, le community management, etc., nous voici devant les termes qui mettent une dénomination sur les « bloggueurs influents » et autres influenceurs.
On constate que pour l’ensemble de ces termes « marketing » désignent des évolutions soit d’internet, soit de métiers existants… Aussi, faut-il suivre cette mode. Hier, nous étions tous community managers, demain, nous serons tous curateurs !
One problem on a daily basis is to decide for a given Twitter account whether I want to follow it or not. I consider many factors when making the decision such as language of their tweets, frequency, whether they interact on twitter with other people I admire, or if I have some personal or geographic connection with them. But the most critical factor for me is whether they tweet about things that match my interests.
New tool to help see which topics a person tweets about most often. It also shows the other twitter users that are mentioned most frequently in their tweets. I call it the Tweet Topic Explorer. I'm using the recently described Word Cluster Diagrams to show the most frequently used words in their tweets and how they are grouped together.....
The entry field at the lower left lets you explore the tweets for any twitter user.
Great Presentation at SXSW 2011
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